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Malaysia is a country unlike any other: Full of promise and fragility. Its history, cultural and religious diversity make it a rich, compelling and surprising land. Tariq Ramadan

History, Diversity, Rich, Country, Land

The significance of the cherry blossom tree in Japanese culture goes back hundreds of years. In their country, the cherry blossom represents the fragility and the beauty of life. It's a reminder that life is almost overwhelmingly beautiful but that it is also tragically short. Homaro Cantu

Life, Beauty, Beautiful, Tree, Culture

I am not a snowflake. I am not a sweet, infantilising symbol of fragility and life. I am a strong, fierce, flawed adult woman. I plan to remain that way, in life and in death. Stella Young

Life, Death, I Am, Strong, Woman, Sweet

We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility. Malcolm Gladwell

Appreciate, Know, Mean, Always, First

There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance. Alexander McQueen

Hidden, Romance, Agenda

Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by. Mahmoud Darwish

Poetry, Growing, Grass, Human, Wall

Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity. Jose Saramago

Life, World, Rest, Now, Intensity

When I look back on my childhood, I think of that short time in Beirut. I know that seeing the city collapse around me forced me to grasp something many people miss: the fragility of peace. Greg Kinnear

Time, Peace, Childhood, Short, City, Me

I think the biggest difference is that I've noticed Western parents seem much more concerned about their children's psyches, their self-esteem, whereas tough immigrant parents assume strength rather than fragility in their children and therefore behave completely differently. Amy Chua

Strength, Children, Parents, Tough, More

Globalization has created this interlocking fragility. At no time in the history of the universe has the cancellation of a Christmas order in New York meant layoffs in China. Nassim Nicholas Taleb

History, Time, New York, Universe, New

One can't live with a child of Holocaust survivors without absorbing some of the same sensibilities that her parents transmitted to her as a young girl. It is an unspoken dread, a sense of fragility, an anxious anticipation of unseen horrors. Kai Bird

Live, Girl, Child, Parents, Young, Her

Fragility is the quality of things that are vulnerable to volatility. Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Quality, Things, Vulnerable, Volatility

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man. Norman Cousins

Life, Respect, Man, Educated, Mark

Why is it that scuba divers and surfers are some of the strongest advocates of ocean conservation? Because they've spent time in and around the ocean, and they've personally seen the beauty, the fragility, and even the degradation of our planet's blue heart. Sylvia Earle

Beauty, Time, Ocean, Heart, Blue, Why

Everything about 'Hugo' to me is poignant, from the broken orphan to the old man losing his past to the fragility of film itself. John Logan

Man, Past, Losing, Broken, Me, Old Man

I found I am not an anarchistic form creator; I'm intuitive, and I'm trying to figure out a way to explore human fragility. Thomas Vinterberg

I Am, Trying, Way, Explore, Human, Found

I'm one of those introverted people who simply feels a lot better after spending time alone thinking through ideas and emotions. This is a sign, I've come to think, of a kind of emotional disturbance - a reaction to inner fragility. I wish I were more able to just act and do, rather than constantly have to retreat and examine and think. Alain de Botton

Time, Alone, Ideas, People, Thinking

Given the extent of the exposures of major banks around the world to A.I.G., and in light of the extreme fragility of the system, there was a significant risk that A.I.G.'s failure could have sparked a global banking panic. Ben Bernanke

Failure, Light, World, Risk, Banking

Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit; the loss of the empire of the United States; and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure. James Hillman

Education, Loss, American, Capitalism

The main threads running through the lives of W. A. Clark and his daughter Huguette include the costs of ambition, the burdens of inherited wealth, the fragility of reputation, the folly of judging someone's life from the outside, and the tension between engaging with the world, with all its risks, and keeping a safe distance from danger. Bill Dedman

Life, Daughter, Risks, World, Ambition

I believe human beings mark a threshold in the development of the planet, of course, but it is only part of the picture. What Big History can do is show us the nature of our complexity and fragility and the dangers that face us, but it can also show us our power, with collective learning. David Christian

Nature, Learning, History, Power, Face

We, as extremely complex creatures, desperately need to know this story of how the universe creates complexity and why complexity means vulnerability and fragility. David Christian

Story, Universe, Know, Why, Need, How

The biggest fragility in a project is often just the inability to be able to explain to people why you are doing it, and when you're going to do it, and what's going to happen. Sebastian Coe

People, Doing, You, Why, Project, Going

If you take something out of the freezer, it's cold, but what happens when it melts? It's a cool party, a cool person, a cool collection. What does that mean? I'm more interested in things that are uncool, things that have a certain individuality, a certain soul, a certain longevity, emotion, fragility. Alber Elbaz

Soul, Cool, Party, You, Person, More

A music serves truth up to you in a really interesting way that allows you to luxuriate in its beauty and, at the same time, to hopefully see yourself in its fragility. George C. Wolfe

Beauty, Music, Time, Truth, Yourself

When people grow up with a family characterized by chaos and uncertainty and fragility, you look for a substitution for that. Carrie Brownstein

Family, Chaos, People, Grow, Uncertainty

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